Three-dimensional greeting card



14, 1954 MARYLKA KELLERER, NEE BENDER THREE-DIMENSIONAL GREETING CARD Filed May 28, 1951' 3 Sheets-Sheet l 1954 MARYLKA KELLERER, NEE BENDER 2,696,690

' THREE-DIMENSIONAL GREETING CARD I Filed May 28, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 1 1954 MARYLKA KELLERER, NEE BENDER 2,696,690

THREE-DIMENSIONAL GREETING CARD 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed May 28, 1951 Unitd StatCS e THREE-DIMENSIONAL GREETING Marylka Kellerer, ne' Bender, Neuilly-sur sein'e, Fran'ce Application MayZSQHSLSe riaI mszzasss Claims priority, appueatienF'rance- May 3 1, 1950 'I' 3 Claims. (Cl".=41--1'1) This invention relates to" picture *b'ann articles and rriore'especially to articles bearing printed picture's such as appear on greeting *and menu cardsfposters, decorat ve materials, advertising prints, picture books-informational' and educational representations and other reproductions in print on sheetmaterial,"and'in thejfirst place plain'or colored paper, cardboard, sheetsbfplastrc material, textile tissues,metal'sheets etc. It-1s an'ob ect of this invention to improve,'both in technicaland economrcal respect, the manufacture of articles of the kin'daforesaid which display a three-dimensional appearance by virtue of different parts thereof extending and being held in different planes.

Pictures of'a similar t pe as' hitherto available conslst of separate parts pasted or otherwise connected to each other or to a background sheet, or scored or stamped 'out and'folded to extend'in different'planes: In the'p'r'oduction of these articlesthenecessityof glueing the together was particularly"objectionableand the 'prmtlng had to be done inmost cases 'on'both sides of the sheet.

It is -an object of'this"inve'ntionto provide"a' novel form'of plastic-appearing"picture"sheets, consisting, in

their simplest embodiment, of a plurality of fragmental coherent portions of a single sheet of paper or other material, all printed with parts of the picture on the same surface of the paper and scored and folded into part1al superposition.

It is a further object of this invention to prov1de a process whereby the new type of plastic-appearing picture bearing articles can be produced on the print ng press and/or the stamping die in a single operation which involves a great saving in material and a still greater saving in labor, wages and first cost of the article.

In order to convey a better understanding of my invention and how the same is to be performed, I will now describe it in detail, having reference to the drawings affixed to this specification and forming part thereof, in which several embodiments of my invention are illustrated diagrammatically by way of example.

In the drawings Figs, 1-4 illustrate one embodiment,

Fig. 1 showing the blank, printed and scored, but not yet folded,

Fig. 2 illustrates on a smaller scale the mode of folding it, while Fig. 3 shows the finished article, drawn to a slightly larger scale,

Fig. 4 being a diagrammatical representation, in side view, of the different planes in which extend the fragmental portions of which the picture is composed.

Figs. 5-8 illustrate a second embodiment,

Fig. 5 being the blank,

Fig. 6 showing the mode of folding same, while Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the finished article in 0 en,

Fig. 8 is a plan view in closed position.

Figs. 9 and 10 are diagrams indicating the possibility of making cards or the like offering more than two printed card sections for the composition of a plasticappearing picture according to this invention.

Fig. 11 illustrates an embodiment utilizing three printed sections, while Fig. 12 shows a modified form of a card in which two printed sections and two frame sections are combined in the form of a triptych.

Fig. 13 is a perspective view of another embodiment ice 2. having means for displaying the plastic picture in sub stantially vertical 'po's'itionr" Fig. "l4 is-a diagrammat1""h6w'ing' of' a -ca'rd with a COVling 'Sfittfitili"Wh'ich presents "retaining edges- "forming part, not of a frame, but of a mere-triangular section! The feature common to all the 'embo'dir'nents shown '-on the drawings and which is the 1 most important feature of the articles according to this invention, is tliei-pro vision of a covering sheet 'secti'on presenting at least one edge and better-still a plurality" 'of 'edges 'exte'r'idin g partly or altogether across theunderlying sheet' 'secition-"or secticins',- referab1y in the forth of-a frame of regular 'or irregular contoun'these' edges serving as the means for retaining and raising scored part's of' one ot a'pluralityof covered '(unde'rl'yingl card section's, all bearing part -'of picture on the same -side'of the sheet, raised" or-'pulld by-hand above these edges, in a plane or-planes different from the plane inWHi'Ch 'the-Eectionissituatedftowhich they adhere:=- I v Referring 'to' the 'dr'awi'ng'sand first-toFigs'. l'4, -A',' B and'C are "coherent sections-of a single sheet of'pa'per cardboard or Othersheetmateria The surface "of'se'ctior'i A as shown in "the drawing is the rear "face of the section and of the'fi'nished card Sections AandB are re'ctan'gles"iritended to befo'lded alongtlie' linel as shown in Fig. '-2. Section -B =is scor'ed"along "the open by a connecting piece 5. a It is scored along "the"contours of another bunch 6 of flowers and leaves. The flowers and-leaves ofjbuncl'i 4 are joined togetheror adhere to se"etion B only'iat-the points marked?! and are separated for the reater part" 'from' the' sheet section j and trameach other by thecuts F8. B-y folding section 'C 'al'o'fi'g tlieline' 9' a'gai'nst the fr'dnvface 10 (notvi'sible in Fig. l) of section A, and section B on top of them (Fig. 2) the contours of the vase and the flowers and leaves of both bunches appear in the frame formed by the oval aperture 2, partly overlapping each other.

As shown in Fig. 3, the outermost flowers and leaves of the bunch 6 are raised or pulled by hand through the aperture of the oval frame of section B and the flowers and leaves of bunch 4 which are scored from the material of section B and still adhere to it at some points, are partly pulled through between those of bunch 6, so that now the two bunches are situated in at least two different planes raised above the plane of section B. The dotted lines 11 of reference leading from parts of Fig. 3 to the diagram of Fig. 4 indicate the planes in which the flowers and leaves appear after they have been raised out of the plane, in which this covered section extends. Obviously these raised portions will, at least partly, extend in directions not parallel with the sheet or card section A and thereby increase the appearance of plasticity. By partly overlapping each other, they hinder the onlooker from distinguishing clearly the planes from which they emerge.

On the basis of the representation of section A on the drawmg as being viewed from the back, printing of the picture on sections B and C is done on the rear surface of the sheet exclusively, because it is these rear surfaces, that appear as top faces of the finished article.

In the card shown in Figs. 5-8 a sheet with the contour of a capital T subdivided into four sheet sections A, B, C, D and printed on three sections B, C and D is folded as shown in Fig. 6, the finished article showing a small part of the picture as being visible through a heartshaped aperture 14 of section D. Section C is formed with the main frame 15 surrounding the portion 18 cut out and free to be raised out of the plane of section C, this section thus being comparable to section B in Fig. 1. Section B, similarly as section C in Fig. 1, adds the main parts 16, 17 of the picture which when the sheet is folded (Figs. 6 and 7) combines with 18 to show a plastic pictllire whose overlapping parts appear in several different p anes.

The canopy 17 forming a separate portion of section B, when folded as shown in Fig. 7, extends in a horizontal 3 and a vertical plane. It may project through a slit (not shown) provided in a covering section.

All the printing appears on the rear side of the sheet.

In the embodiment of Fig. 9 all three sections B, C, D carry parts of the picture and are scored so as to partly cover and uncover each other, respectively.

Fig. 10 shows a card similar to Fig. 9, in which a fourth printed and scored section B participates in the formation of the picture.

Fig. 11 shows the application of the invention to articles made of transparent material (for instance cellophane or oil paper).

Fig. 12 shows how two narrow sections C and D can be employed as leaves of a triptych-door covering part or all of the picture.

Fig. 14 illustrates a modified form of a card according to this invention. Here the cover section does not comprise a frame whose edges serve as retainers of detached picture portions but a triangular section B smaller than the other sections and presenting two edges 19 by means of which cut-out portions of the pictures on sections C and D can be raised into other planes.

Fig. 13 shows how cards such as described in the foregoing can be fashioned to be placed on a table in vertical position. The covering frame-section B, through which appears a part of a lateral (picture) section, has a section 20 folded to afford an abutment 21 which supports the picture sections in vertical position.

The production of the plastic appearance is aided by the provision of double-folds such as indicated for instance in the dotted lines 22, 23 in Fig. 1, and 24, 25 and 2 6, 27 in Figs. 5 and 7.

The back and the covering sections may be held in the folded position by suitably fashioned fastening corner pigces 12)8 being inserted into slits 29 of another section Obviously not only cards, but also other articles, for instance envelopes, books and other products mentioned in the first paragraphs of this specification, may be combined with plastic pictures according to this invention.

Obviously, the sheet with its coherent sections might 4 be composed of a number of separate sheets connected by gluing or in some other manner, without departing from the invention, however in that case the advantage of printing its components in a single operation might get lost.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the details of the embodiments shown and described, for obvious modifications may occur to a person skilled in the art.

I claim:

1. As a new article, a sheet bearing on different sections of one of its surfaces all parts of a picture, a first section serving as a background and connecting a second and a third section, said third section being folded down along a first line in superposition upon said first section and in this position displaying part of the picture, being scored to form a frame surrounding all parts of the picture, a second section being folded along a second line extending at right angles to said first line and being arranged between said first and said third sections, displaying in this position another part of the picture, which extends through said frame into a plane in front of said frame and is interleaved with parts of the picture on the second section so as to overlap them and said frame.

2. The article of claim 1, in which part of one of the second and third sections is folded twice along two closely adjacent lines in opposite directions.

3. The article of claim 1, in which the first and the third sections are bigger than the second section.

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